Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alaska's biggest business is fishing (1957 take: $93 million), which is controlled by Seattle packers, supervised by an absentee government-and this outside control is the pet hate of Alaska statehooders. They claim that it weakens the Alaskan labor market by bringing in outsiders for half its 25,000 seasonal work force, and more important, severely depletes stocks by the use of fish traps. As it is, the industry is slipping (8,000,000 cases packed in 1936 v. 2,500,000 in 1957), and the sagging market makes it all the more imperative that the new state...
...blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters for some 125 followers: seven meats, two kinds of fish, ten vegetables, salad, desserts, coffee, milk and fruit juices. On the subject of halting H-bomb tests, he made his position clear: "I haven't had anything much to say about that because I believe that everything should be governed by the higher understanding as given or handed down from...
Yesterday, for the first time in many years, the Central Kitchen did not present its usual outlay of fish delicacies to tempt the palates of undergraduates. For the special coincidence of Memorial Day and Friday, Archbishop Richard J. Cushing granted a special dispensation allowing Roman Catholics to eat meat, a Central Kitchen official said...
...short, they want to steal Josephine's eggs. And while it might seem worthwhile to breed the whooping crane in any way possible, notice should be given to the Fish and Wildlife Service (we know what they do to trout when they get the chance) that some things are sacred and that Josephine, for one, should be able to stand by her rights. That is, Josephine should sit one, her own eggs. She laid them, she should hatch them. Better the species should perish than Josephine should be denied the full satisfactions of motherhood...
...field of buttercups. But it is the strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin that truly seduces Charlie. One day it is Pop piloting a real, if secondhand, Rolls-Royce into the yard and grandly announcing, "Ourn." Other times, it is Ma wolfing fish and chips and baying "Turn up the contrast!" toward the ever-playing...